Poetry Codex

Victorian

H. W. Bidwell

dates not given by Wilmot

H. W. Bidwell is one of the named contributors to The Poetry of South Africa, collected and arranged by A. Wilmot (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; Cape Town: J. C. Juta & Co., 1887), an anthology of verse from the Cape Colony, Natal and the Transvaal.

This archive holds 12 poems printed under this name in that volume, in Wilmot’s spelling. His pieces are dated from Grahamstown and Uitenhage between 1862 and 1869. Dates are not given by Wilmot and are not supplied here.

Poems (12)

  1. Afric’s Greeting
  2. Robert Godlinton
  3. The Diamond Digger
  4. The Last of the Bowkers
  5. The Drunkard’s Child
  6. The Angel’s Message
  7. The “Churl” of the Period; and Another
  8. Welcome
  9. Precepts for Young and Old
  10. Be Kind to One Another
  11. Paddy’s Love Symptoms
  12. Proverbial Philosophy of Humbug

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